Perhaps that would enable us to lock up all the Dirty Old Men and all the Dirty Young Women. Perhaps they could all be incarcerated together, each DOM in the same cell as his DYW, and left to get on with their rabid symbiotic impurities until they all fell down dead from exhaustion.

The good Fr. John Hunwicke has a very good brief attach on the notion that the pope is above Church law. He completely rejects the notion, as do I. It is not a Catholic position and is indeed a caricature of both the words of Christ and the papal office itself.